Assembled from modular, interchangeable, and hot-pluggable
parts (left), our novel device forms a skeletal tree matching
the Elephant. As the user manipulates each joint of the
device, measured bone rotations animate a skeletal rig, and
the Elephant comes to life!

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acknowledgments

We are indebted to Ladislav Kavan for illuminating discussions. Gilles Caprari
(gctronic.com) provides electronic and
engineering support. We thank Marco Attene for making MeshFix open source and
Olga Diamanti, Romain Prévost, Christian Schüller, Kenshi Takayama, Emily
Whiting for proofreading. This work is supported by the ERC grant iModel
(StG-2012-306877), by an SNF award 200021_137879 and the Intel Doctoral
Fellowship.